How old are you gamers

MooseJam

I'm starting to get on in years, sigh, into my 30's now and still playing games, I'm sure I still will be in 10 or 20 years time, just wondering what the age spread is for all you gamers, so only vote if you are a gamer !

Vokes

Im 25, which one do i pick ?

Silverfish

30.

Which do I go for?

25 to 30, or 30 to 35?

I went for 25 to 30, makes me feel younger.

Recon

I'm 24.

challengemaster

16 :d

smithy1981

26

o1s1n

23. Started when I was 4 or 5 on a ZX Spectrum. Don't plan on stopping any time soon. Although, I do find I have a lot less time to devote to it. Shame really.

tman

24 as well (for another 10 days anyway:( )
I've been gaming seriously since I was about 10 or so. Started to go off it a year ago, then I got a DS and fell in love with it all over again.

johnny_ultimate

19 is the age. Gaming since a young age - probably 7 or 8 officially.

Cravez

20 years old, been playin since the commodore64 came out, so been gaming for a long time

mcgovern

25 years young yesterday, also started out on a C64

Rhyme

21. First game was pacman built into a table in a pub in Kerry, maybe 4 or 5 years of age.

Started gaming properly on the NES, Trog and Low-G man for the nostalgic win.

27, started with a NES,a game boy then a mega drive, a playstation, Dreamcast, playstation 2, PSP, PS3 and a PC.
I remember low g man, never finished it though, got it for a fiver in dunnes.

jonski

40 , but closer to the 41 mark so I had to go for the 40-45

ZorbaTehZ

19. First PC game was Blake Stone: Aliens Of Gold, had to learn how to use DOS to get it working.

Sarky

Old enough to remember New Zealand Story in the arcades.

FranchisePlayer

15 I am 16 in febuary:D . Began playing mario when I was about 5 had all the old consoles such as the nes and snes because there was a siginificant gap between me and my elder brother 8 and a half years in fact:D

im...LOST

I'm 17 and my first console was the Sega Megadrive with Sonic 2, The Lion King and a 3-in-one game. Santa was good that year

We soon moved onto the Nintendo 64 several years after.

Qwertyboy

I surprised to see the 20-25 category is leading but whatever.
I suppose the first console I played was one of the old Ataris, in all of its (4 bit)? glory ^ ^

Creamy Goodness

christ i thought i was old playing games at 21, this thread has made me feel better.

Stephen

Michael Cravez wrote:

20 years old, been playin since the commodore64 came out, so been gaming for a long time

I doubt it, the C64 was first released five years before your birth (give or take a couple of months)

edit: forgot to add how I started.

First was a second hand Atari 2600. 4 colours. Pong. Combat. Missile Command. Wanky joysticks. Oh yes! I was very young then, can't remember what age exactly.
Then came an Amiga 600. That was the business. I wasted many hours of my life with that machine. I fondly remember Geoff Crammond's F1 Grand Prix. Quasi-3D graphics and a manual the size of a phone book. Eventually I resorted to making my car indestructible and driving around the track in the wrong direction, smashing the oncoming cars to bits (Hockenheimring was the best for this due to ridiculously long straight sections through the forest). If you hit them fast enough you could split them in two . Two formula 1 cars in a head on collision = ~500mph impact! Lemmings, superfrog, zool, skidmarks, a whole bunch of LucasArts adventures, cannon fodder and many others provided hours of amusement.

I held on to the Amiga for several years, then eventually got my first PC - a 486 with 8MB of RAM, struggling to run Windows 95! Doom, TIE Fighter (the super-sexy 640x480 CD version with full digital audio and a buttload of expansion packs, wow!) and Sam & Max Hit The Road were the stars of that machine's days.
I had a series of other PC's after that (second hand Pentium 200, Pentium 3 866, then followed by a silly amount of AMD based machines when I finally had the cash to regularly ugprade, and now I'm back on my first Intel in ages (C2D E6600). Never had a pentium 4!

I never had any of the 8 or 16 bit consoles in my house, but got to play them a bit with friends. The first console I got since getting my first PC was a PS2. Had an Xbox, GBA, PSP and 360 since, but I rarely play on the consoles. PC is king!

Naikon

18 here, I used to play on an Amiga 1500(I think) when I was a Child, but moved onto consoles such as the Snes and N64.
Never liked Sony consoles(cept for GTA:D), so I went with the PC and haven't turned back since.

Retr0gamer

24. First game was probably in the arcades about 4-5 years of age. Got a C64 when I was about 7 and turned into a very serious gamer in a short space of time.

johnny_ultimate

Cremo wrote:

christ i thought i was old playing games at 21, this thread has made me feel better.

I agree. The boards population is older than I expected

JM MARCONI

Im 20 and I started playing games on my brothers C64. But the first game I really got hooked on was Super Mario World for the SNES. Oh I was as happy as a pig in $hit that Christmas:D

Actually the first game i got hooked on was Golden Axe. It used to be in loads of Hotels and Pubs so id play that none stop until my money ran out. Then id cry until my parents gave me more. (That doesnt work for me anymore though)

mikemac

25, also started on a C64

Crucifix

21.
I have hazy memories of "Jet Boot Jack" on a black and white telly.

the_syco

I remember playing Wolf3D back in the day. That was cool. Played most games on the 486. Played one or two games on the 386. Prince 1, and Duke Nukem 1 & 2 were fun, as was Flashback...

phoenix2181

started playing games on the BBC Micro & also a spectrum 48k (good old basic!!), moved on to a c64, amiga 500, then a 500+, amiga 1200, megadrive / games boy, around 1995 moved on to a 486 dx100, my first pentium was a 200MMX, the a p4 1.4ghz, & then finally my amd 64 3800, I'll be upgreading to a shiny new quad core in a few months I suspect

miju

you should really change that poll option to 26-30 , I'm 25 myself and theres no way I'm putting myself in the 25-30 yr old bracket just yet

thelordofcheese

24, and my first console was the atari 2600, which I think my parents bought when I was born and just kept it for me untill I was about 8. So while everyone else had the graphical frippery of the megadrive and the snes, i was enjoying pacman and river raid in an amazing 4 colours. Joy.

darkskol

28 but find I now have less time to play games especially long games...lucky I have a ds!

Dont be at yourself

21, a child of the Megadrive - though I do remember playing on an old Colecovision aswell!

Vokes

Qwertyboy wrote:

I surprised to see the 20-25 category is leading but whatever.

Not really surprising I guess a lot of those poeple would have started in the late 80's early 90's when the whole gaming thing started getting really popular, what with the game boys / nes / snes / mega drives.

Could it have something to do with games maturing as well as us?

MooseJam

pretty nice bell curve there , I started serious gaming on an Amstrad 64 - commando, harrier attack, space hawks, way of the exploding fist, beach head , roland on the ropes, oh mummy - http://youtube.com/watch?v=kTRfIUMbTas hah that bring back memories

Holsten

20 here, started off with the Amiga 2000.

steviec

23 here. Started with a C64 when I was about 5. New Zealand story was the first game I got hooked on.

Smellyirishman

20 atm, put in for 20-25. (Way to screw up the poll ya big Moose ). Can't remember my first game, I was too young but I know we had some weird console with some snooker game and I played that but my dad was a PC gamer and my fondest memories are being his "Co-pilot" ( Now I realise he just wanted all the gaming time to himself, the bastard! ) as we played through C&C or Desert Strike. We even had to upgrade from 2mb Ram to 4mb Ram for C&C .

A lot of my games were played in other houses (no, I wasn't a user, just poor! ), I used to play the original Prince of Persia whenever I went up to my grannies house (and my dad picked up the new version for me when it came out in memory of this!). First console I bought was a PSOne, although I'm sure we have some form of Atari, I was just too young to remember the brand/model.

starman100

38 (:eek: ), and my first gaming machine was the good auld Spectrum 48K with the squidgy keys (mind you, it was able to stand up to the neighbour's toddler having a tap dance on top) - fondest memories are of typing in about 2000 lines of code from Sinclair 48K magazine to play some pyramid puzzle game, 'Elite' (still a classic) with the weird plastic lens dongle, 'Commando' that gave me blisters on my big thumb from pressing fire on the flimsy plastic joystick, graduated(?) onto an Atari 2400 for a while, then took a break for a few years before getting into PC gaming, Nintendo NES, then a PS1, PS2 and now back on PC (mainly).

I have always found gaming to be a great stress reliever and pure escapism.

Kinetic^

24 here.

C64,Mega Drive*,N64,Gameboy Colour,PS2,Xbox,Xbox 360*,Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS*

*still currently posess

monkeyfudge

People always get age polls wrong.

Anyway... I'm 29 and I would have started out gaming on a Vic-20 that I got around 1982.

I then worked my way through the C-64 and the Amiga 500 before moving on to PCs...

The first console I ever got was the Dreamcast.

jesus_thats_gre

27 and playing since I got my Amstrad whatever.. Can't even remember the model anymore.. Then went to a Sega Megadrive, 32X, a 486 PC, 350Mhz PII, PS1, 1.8GHz P4 Laptop, 3.0GHZ P4 Laptop, 2.8Ghz P4 Desktop, PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, Dell Xps Gen2 Laptop, Athlon 64 X2 Desktop, C2D Desktop and finally a Dell XPS M1710 laptop.

EdgarAllenPoo

I'm 21. I honestly don't think video games are an age thing. Look at dvd's you wouldn't call buying or watching dvd's an age related passtime.

The Freeman

23 gigiddy!

FranchisePlayer

OhI forgot to mention besides the early nintendo consoles my brother also got
N64,ps1,dreamcast(crimnally ignored by people),gba,gba sp,gamecube,xbox(I won it in a television competition along with a really rare game called steel batallion:D ),ps2,P.C,ds,ds lite,360 and a wii so basically my house was full of consoles.

super_furry

28. Started when I was 6 with an Atari 2600 and haven't stopped since.

fenris

38 - Started with my mates ZX81 then persuaded my parents that a ZX spectrum was the way of the future - back in the days when games magazines had the game code in the form of pages and pages of hex for you to type in and run!

The scary thing is that some of you think I am taking the piss!

moved onto a spectrum 128K, followed by an atari ST(my first bank loan), didn't like it much so I traded it in against an Amiga.

Then when I needed to study computers the evil that is a PC in the form of an IBM PS2 running DR DOS arrived.

After that it was self build overclocking and watercooling all the way up to todays E6600 with 8800 GTS.

MooseJam

In defense of the poll it is actually fine, 15 - 20 does not include 20, if you are 20 you should vote 20 - 25, likewise 20 - 25 does not include 25, it's very straightforward

Duggy747

22 in September for me. Being playing since we got a NES back in the late 80's (I was about 4), then my bro became the country champion and won a SNES with 14 games back in 92', 2 Gameboys, N64, PS2. We got a PC in 98' so we stuck with the games on that till the present day, to which I got my laptop now. The NES, SNES, & Gameboy are still in mint condition so I love pulling 'em out the odd time, especially the SNES.

I always loved going to the arcades back in the day so I spend most my time either playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. or arcade games gone past.

Vegeta

24

you 23 and 19 year olds are so lucky in the "prime" of your life......da dum dish

i'll get my coat